Liverpool school board votes to bring back former board member to fill vacant seat

Liverpool, NY -- The Liverpool school board voted Monday night to offer the seat vacated by board member James Kane to former board member Rick Pento.

Pento, who served on the board from 2007 to 2011, lost his seat by 3 votes in May. The board voted to ask Pento to return and Board President Don Cook said Pento has accepted.

“It’s exciting for us because he was a great board member,” Cook said. “Also there will not be a learning curve for him.”

Kane resigned last month because he is no longer living in the school district. The board vote Monday night to accept his resignation. Kane was elected to a three-year seat on the school board in 2009. Pento will serve out the remainder of Kane's term and will have to run again in May if he wishes to stay on the board, Cook said.

Pento was first appointed to the school board in Sept. 2007 to fill a vacant seat.

The board will vote to officially appoint Pento to the seat at the board’s next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday night at the district office on Blackberry Road in Clay.